Passing helmet law will reduce injuries

Thank you for publishing the article on motorcycle safety, highlighting the need for Connecticut to pass a "helmet law," as the majority of other states have already done.

I am amazed at the number of motorcycle riders I see who do not have a helmet on. One's head is the most vulnerable part of our body, and it must be given the maximum possible protection from injury in the event of a motorcycle mishap.

Wearing a helmet does exactly that. It is well worth a biker's disciplined tolerance of a helmet's "hot spots," head sweating, and missing the sensation of the "wind blowing through one's hair," in order to avoid certain additional traumatic head injury that will be experienced in a motorcycle mishap without having helmet protection.

I hope legislation to require wearing of a helmet when riding a motorcycle in Connecticut will be drafted by our elected officials in Hartford, and passed as soon as possible -- before another single Connecticut biker is more seriously injured in an accident because they were riding without a helmet.